The GOP: for old, white people only.
Grand Old Paedophilia Party
How is that megaphone working out for you?
The Republicans recently launched a new website, America Speaking Out to give the American public a “megaphone” to give the party ideas for the elections this autumn. Here’s one example of what they got:
Idea for New Jobs: Construct Additional Pylons. This will keep our drones gainfully employed and increase the side of our base.
The Washington Post has more. It’s as if they don’t understand the internet at all. Yet they have nor problems finding rentboys on the web, strictly to “carry their luggage” of course.
QotD: moral authority
From Susan of Texax, in comments to this post at Alicublog chronicling wingnut responses to the fiftieth anniversary of the Pill, comes this beauty:
The lesson I learned from Maggie Gallagher was that you can have sex while unmarried, get knocked up, and still have a career as a moral scold who tells everyone else that their life will be ruined if they have sex and get knocked up.
The younger generation will have to be content with Bristol Palin’s moral of the story–have sex, get knocked up, and be given five-figure speaking fees from organizations trying to discourage young women from having sex and getting knocked up.
Remember: all that stuff we tell you is bad for you and immoral is quite alright if we do it, as logn as we keep telling you later not to do as we do, just as we say.
No sex before marriage say Mark Souder and Tracy Jackson
But nobody said you had to be married to each other, did they?
Souder can’t have been a real Republican: no “wide stance”, luggage carriers, dubble dildoed wetsuits, live goats or dead boys, just a moderately attractive female staffer? Not up to the usual GOP skeeviness standards…
Chick, Chick, Chick, Chicken, Lay A Laparoscopy For Me
Just when you think the US right wing could not possibly get more insane, not to mention openly fascist, someone or something comes along that makes your jaw drop so far you’re eating lunch off the doormat.
Sue Lowden is a former local tv news bimbo and Nevada GOP chair who’s running against current Senate Leader Harry Reid. Her big idea for those millions of US citizens without health insurance is that they barter with their doctors for care -with chickens, or hay or alfalfa or bathtubs, even.
From the Huffington Post:
Republican Senate candidate Sue Lowden on Tuesday defended her claim that a “chickens for checkups” barter system would be an effective alternative to the recently-passed health care reform bill.
She also said her original comments on the proposal were taken “way out of context.”
Lowden, who is seeking to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada, explained her previous statement in an interview with a local news outlet in Nevada:
“The truth of the matter is there is bartering going on in this state and in the country. It has been going on for years and it was a casual statement talking about the reality of what’s going on, and not in a negative way by the way. This is something — you know when I talk about bartering like you said it’s also bargaining for the price, asking doctors if there’s a different price if you’re paying cash or paying by check. We know this is going on.”
She’s tried to back off her statements more than once since, but the more she wriggles, the worse it gets. Someone’s even been helpful enough to design a handy chicken/care calculator. What I want to know is what about the more expensive procedures, like transplants? That’s an awful lot of chickens to cart around, and let’s not even mention the guano. It’s no good switching to bigger currency either – for example, can anyone tell me where I can get change for a herd of Friesians?